Listen to Future Now #61 I couldn’t believe it when I read about a geoengineering project changing the reflectivity of clouds in our home, the SF Bay Area, in Scientific American, a mainstream science publication! Maybe there is something to all the airplane trails we see these days that will be discussed to major forums. No such luck in looking at…

Listen to Future Now Podcast Hope you all enjoyed your eclipse experience, be it partial, full, or virtual! Our fav visuals were from the ISS, where you could see the eclipse, appearing as a dark cloud-like 115 mile diameter shadow cast onto the planet’s surface, speeding across the continent, southwest to northeast. Moving at 2400 km/h, the dark s…

59 Future Now Show Listen Here We are still on the road this week, this time in magical Mt. Shasta, where we introduce you one of it’s residents, Mt. Shasta is rumored to house the Lemurian city of Telos within.Mary Donnelly. A New Englander trained as an RN in pediatric oncology, she learned of Mt. Shasta via an alternative healer, and feeling she…

Listen to 58 Future Now Wise Democracy This week we are on the road in beautiful Port Townsend, Washington, visiting Jim Rough, founder of www.wisedemocracy.org and Casandra Firman, Jim’s wife and partner in updating democracy as we know it. We all know about the importance of voting, and the necessities of jury duty and national defence as citizen…

Listen to 57 Future Now - We are on a roadtrip to Seattle and doing our podcast from AirB&B’s for the next couple of shows. This week is on the road in Ashlandfrom Ashland, a cultural hotspot known for great art galleries, theaters, restaurants, and the home of the world famous Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We saw the opening production of MacBeth, …

Listen to 56 Future Now Show Some cool stories this week, including our very own Taylor Barcroft’s admission he is a Swiftie, in the Taylor Swift sense of the word. Who knew? Besides sharing his Swiftie passion he updates us on the latest in Apple Tech, waveforms of the word ‘water’ in many languages onboard Europa Clipperincluding what’s coming up…

Listen to 55 Future Now Lots happening in the AI universe this week, including Sun’s quite humorous report with examples of Google’s faux paus in the name of woke culture. EMO by AliBaba is scary-good at taking any source image plus audio and making the image look like they are saying/singing the audio. This can bring to life any decent picture of …

Listen To 54 Future Now Bruce Damer Dr. Bruce Damer is a scientist and entrepreneur known for his groundbreaking work in origin of life research and virtual worlds. With expertise spanning astrobiology and computer science, he passionately explores the intersection of technology and the origins of life on Earth and beyond. Now he is focused on what…

Listen to 53 Future Now Show Len Science Poetry What’s great about stormy weather is that stirs up some great stories, and out here in California it means we have more indoor time. This translated into more creative time for us play with some of the new AI media tools coming our way. So in this week’s show you’ll have a preview of what’s possible i…

Listen to 52 Future Now Randall Lee Hopper Some great space news this week, including a new US lunar lander touching down this month; if successful, the Nova-C Lunar Lander by Intuitive Machinesfirst US craft on the moon since 1972! We also explore what are known as ‘chiral currents,’ a new approach to tech which may be as significant as electrons …

Listen to Future Now 2.6.2024 We recorded this show in the aftermath of a large west coast storm, and if you listened in realtime, you would have heard the numerous tech glitches that happened, including dropping off the air multiple times. But for the podcast version you get to focus on what we found most fascinating this week, not the glitches. I…

Listen to 50 Future Now Show Even though the Japanese moon lander kind of crashed, it is still sort of functional..better than nothing! Robots are making their way into society, but not without some issues from the street..Obelisks-a new kind of life smaller than viruses than live within microbes.. This week we covered the “Spirit Fest,” a gatherin…

Listen to 49 Future Now 1.23.2024 Well, the next phase of deep fakes has begun, with a phoney call from the Prez during the NH primaries. And generating faces from DNA is now here as well, bringing new light into cold cases. But how accurate is it, what could go wroing? Plenty.. Meanwhile, a new bar for EV batteries has been set, with the introduct…

Listen to Future Now 1.17.2024 The exciting news this week is promising research showing we can grow new teeth later on in life! This is possible thanks to an antibody that can disrupt what’s known as the USAG-1 protein, in a way that allows the growth of new teeth while remaining healthy. Bobby Wilder gives us the download on this milestone of pro…

Listen Now to Future Now 1.9.24 It’s 2024 and time for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, a massive techie spectacle we used to attend every year. These days, everything there is online and in many ways more accessible to braving the crowds in Las Vegas. New display tech was used to turned the famous Luxor pyramid hotel into a giant Dorito chip!…

Listen to Happy Perihelion New Year Show Happy 2024! This is our first show of the new year, podcasting live from Bliss Mountain! Naturally we are all a bit blissed, here on Bliss Mountain, and our good tidings will hopefully rub off on you and yours. This is an amazing place, a mini Disneyland of fun, relaxation and creativity, thanks to the inspi…

Listen to the Future Now Show 12.26.2023 Welcome to our last show of the year 2023! It’s been a good year for us, spiraling up from the disaster of the Optimus whipping up some breakfast for his biological buddies.Jan 6 storm that devastated our beach house and automobiles. This week Future News covers the imminent release of Apple Vision Pro and t…

Listen to The Future Now Show 12.19.2023 Are repeated patterns throughout history essentially the same old stories in new contexts? Was Nick really abducted by aliens, or what? Is transparent wood a thing? Is Uranus really as weird as an exoplanet? Michael Mercury - Astrological MysticYes, we do tackle these issues with varying degrees of success t…

Listen Now to The Future Now Show 12.12.2023 Activist Kathryn Saari checks in, reminding us of how important it is to connect directly with our elected Kathryn Saari practicing ‘social engineering’ at Santa Cruz City Councilrepresentatives locally, such as our city council members. Even though many city councils are now online, including ours in Sa…

Listen to Future Now 12.5.23 Welcome to the holiday season! We have lots of future news this week. Consider Wasabi for better memory, wonder about the super intelligence of Octopi, or the lifeforms found in a vast underwater city, 6 synchronized planets, and cultural hallucinations. Marvel at the new KISS musical avatars, as the band finishes it’s …

Listen to 41 Future Now Show This week is the start of the UN COP 28 in Dubai with what’s up with climate change. There is already some controversy regarding big oil deals being made there at oil central, but hey, who’s looking? And more controversy at OpenAI, where it turns that there may indeed been an advancement in AI that triggered the current…

Listen Now to Debra Giusti This week we had the opportunity to speak with Debra Giusti, known in our community as the “Creatrix of Transformation.” She is best known for founding the grandmother of West Coast festivals back in the 1970’s, Debra Giusti - Creatrix of TransformationThe Harmony Festival, showcasing the latest and greatest innovations o…

Listen to Future Now 11.21.2023 Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We certainly have with Sun’s (Mrs. Future) family in beautiful Starship 2 launches from Texasdowntown San Jose. Lots to cover in today’s show..Incredible to witness the second Starship launch, going further than ever before! And the Silicon Valley startup OpenAI is going thr…

Listen Now to Alexandra Johnson, M.D. on BREEMA We had an opportunity this week to learn about and experience this modernized ancient practice of Breema, thanks to Dr. Alexandra Johnson, at her clinic in Santa Cruz, CA. In our current divisive war-ridden climate, Breema is a relatively simple yet profound practice of being present, in the moment, i…